How to use espeak command in ubuntu?

Question

I would like to know how to use this command , and what is its benefits for a user .

I know its for speech and can read documents , but how to use it ?

Answer 1

espeak command :

a speech synthesizer for English (and several other languages) which will convert text to speech.

espeak options :

man espeak 

For example to read the content of man pages :

man ls | espeak 



espeak --voices

List all available voice languages

espeak -v en-uk

use “en-uk” – British english to translate the text to speech.

change to your language

espeak -s

The default is 160 words per minute. You can reduce it using option -s

espeak --stdout -t file.txt | aplay


This will convert the text from the file.txt to speech.

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